Mat 18, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



35 



S.^^v!''^-.;:!-.:; !' JlJiiU^ ' :- g!???? 



r , ; •• • « • •< 





BeUefontaine, O.— This town has a 

 population of 8,238. J. E. Stelzig sold 

 1,275 carnations May 13 and 14— one 

 flower for every sixth person in the 

 place. How's that for a Mothers' day 

 record? 



Herington, Kan.— J. A. Gordon had 

 a Mothers' day advertisement in two 

 weekly papers and sold almost every- 

 thing out that looked like a flower. 

 Customers almost all wanted white, but 

 he sold out on all colored stock. 



Babylon, N. Y.— Contract has been 

 awarded to Wm. H. Lutton, Jersey City, 

 N, J., for the construction of an addi- 

 tional range of iron-frame houses for 

 Duncan C. Arnold, of this city. A. 

 Kroeschell boiler will be used for heat- 

 ing. 



Grand Forks, N. D.— E. O. Lovell says 

 Mothers' day trade was simply^ im- 

 mense, many times larger than ever 

 before. The supply of carnations being 

 exhausted early, roses and other flowers 

 sold well. Still greater results are ex- 

 pected next year. 



Marysville, Kan.— H. E. Fisher says 

 the people of Marysville took hold of 

 Mothers' day in fine shape; he could 

 not begin to supply the demand. Busi- 

 ness here is brisk. He has about fin- 

 ished all outside planting; everything 

 looks promising, but rain is needed 

 badly. 



Portland, Ind. — W. Frank & Sons are 

 building three greenhouses, each 300 

 feet long. Advance ventilating ma- 

 chines are being used, equipped with 

 the new Advance "twist-less" arms, 

 one of the first jobs on which these 

 have been used. The Advance Co. also 

 is supplying the pipe fittings for the 

 new houses. 



Alvln, Tex. — The Misses Cook, who 

 did business as Cook & Cook, have 

 married and retired. One now is Mrs. 

 G. N. Yard and the other Mrs. E. J. 

 Sheffield, the business being continued 

 under the name and management of 

 Mr. Sheffield. The firm's old field of 

 jasmine was sold, but a small quantity 

 of stock is now being shipped from a 

 field of young plants. 



Dows, la. — Shaffer & Larson report 

 that this vicinity was visited, on the 

 afternoon of May 14, by one of the 

 worst hail storms ever experienced 

 here. Huge hailstones were borne on- 

 ward by a terrific gale from the south- 

 west, shattering hundreds of windows 

 in the city. In Shaffer & Larson's 

 greenhouse, which was built last year, 

 the loss was only fourteen lights. In 

 their hotbeds, however, nearly all the 

 glass was broken. Though this mis- 

 fortune has befallen them so early in 

 their business career, they are thankful 

 that they escaped so easily. 



Newton, Mass. — The greenhouses on 

 the estate of Frank A. Day, the Boston 

 banker, were damaged by fire May 8. 



Great Falls, Mont. — The West Side 

 Greenhouses are rebuilding two of their 

 houses, using the Garland truss con- 

 struction. 



Westwood, Mass. — The greenhouses 

 and residence of Charles S. Damrell 

 were destroyed by fire May 8. The loss 

 was about $6,000. 



South Bend, Ind. — May day was hap- 

 pily celebrated at the home of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Willis W. Kinyon by the arrival 

 of a new 8^4 -pound son. 



Utica, N. Y.— Wm. P. Pfeifer, the 

 Whitesboro street florist, presented a 

 large quantity of flowers to the relief 

 committee of the Utica- Teachers' As- 

 sociation, to be distributed among the 

 teachers who had been injured in the 

 recent train wreck at Martin's Creek, 

 N. J. 



Leominster, Mass. — On the afternoon 

 of May 6 a miniature tornado demol- 

 ished a section of the roof of George 

 M. Kendall's largest greenhouse, a cu- 

 cumber house which covers 28,000 

 square feet of ground. The damage 

 was estimated at upward of $500. The 

 cucumber vines were not injured. 



Louisville, Ky. — The Bardstown Eoad 

 Fldral Co. has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $8,000, divided into 

 shares of $100 each. The incorporators 

 and their holdings are as follows: Mar- 

 garet H. Struck, Beuchel, forty shares; 

 Pratt A. Reynolds, Beuchel, thirty-seven 

 shares; H. J. Marshall, of this city, 

 three shares. 



Des Moines, la. — The Iowa Seed Co., 

 of which Charles N. Page is president, 

 is erecting a show house and four addi- 

 tional greenhouses on the firm 's grounds 

 at Crocker and Thirty-fi^:)^ streets. The 

 show house will be 40x125 and twenty- 

 five feet high in the center. Two of the 

 new greenhouses will be 21x125 and the 

 other two will be 26x185. 



Leavenworth, Kan. — E. C. Hinz at 

 418 Shawnee street, conducts bot^ a 

 retail and wholesale trade and ships 

 considerable stock to surrounding 

 towns. At Fourteenth and Vilas 

 streets, where his greenhouses are lo- 

 cated, he also has several acres of 

 ground which he uses for the growing 

 of shrubbery and other hardy stock. 



Westerly, B. L — John Cirwein, who 

 has been with Conrad Schultz, of this 

 city, for the last three years, is now 

 making arrangements to go into busi- 

 ness for himself at Wakefield. He will 

 build a range of greenhouses there and 

 expects to have them ready for use by 

 the first part of October. He will do 

 both a wholesale and retail business. 



Carbondale, 111. — The peony crop in 

 southern Illinois is especially promising 

 this year. A big supply is expected to 

 be ready for Memorial day. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — The Underwood- 

 Viles greenhouses, the largest vegetable 

 growing plant in the state, were dam- 

 aged by fire May 10, the loss being 

 estimated at $20,000. 



Stockbridge, Mass. — The greenhouse 

 at Ingleside, the country residence of 

 J. Woodward Haven, was burned April 

 13 and the stock of about 7,000 plants 

 was destroyed. The loss was estimated 

 at $2,500. 



Agawam, Mass. — Mark Aitken is 

 building another greenhouse, 40x160, on 

 the river road. The Lord & Burnham 

 Co. has the contract. The new house 

 will be used for violets, while the pres- 

 ent violet house will be used for roses. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — A fine new deliv- 

 ery auto, belonging to James E. Beach, 

 appeared on the streets just before 

 Easter and caused much favorable com- 

 ment. It is a twenty horse-power 

 Sampson car, with the body hand- 

 somely paneled and tastefully painted 

 and lettered. It rendered good service 

 during the Easter trade. 



Bangor, Me. — J. Martin, Jr., who has 

 greenhouses on Center street, opened a 

 handsome store April 11 at the old 

 Martin homestead, where he was born. 

 He left home when quite young and 

 worked at his trade for seventeen years 

 in Boston and New York. Beturning 

 to this city, he built his greenhouses six 

 years ago and his business has steadily 

 prospered. 



Bochdale, Mass. — Walter E. Draper, 

 who has conducted the Maple Eidge 

 greenhouses" for the last two years, 

 will go into business in Westboro, June 

 1, in partnership with H. F. Midgley, 

 who has a flower store in Worcester. 

 In Westboro the chief attention will 

 be given to the growing of carnations. 

 The Maple Eidge greenhouses will be 

 run until June by Mr. Draper; then his 

 brother may take charge of them, at 

 least until fall. 



I 



Kalispell, Mont.— The Kalispell Gar- 

 dens report a heavy spring trade, fol- 

 lowing a record-breaking Easter. The 

 firm has discontinued handling trees and 

 is putting its energies into the growing 

 of cut flowers and greenhouse veg- 

 etables. A large part of the grounds 

 has been sown with grain. "The latest 

 addition to the population of/ the gar- 

 dens is a baby mule, which has been 

 promptly christened Maud. The soil in 

 Kalispell is of remarkable richness, 

 and, with all the water that is needed 

 and a magnificent location, the Kalispell 

 Gardens are going ahead in no uncer- 

 tain fashion. 



